The holy grail of Chet Baker collectors
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Description
Recorded with the Norwegian poet Jan Erik Vold in 1988 three months before Baker’s death. Vold himself worked with many jazz musicians throughout his career (before he was a widely published poet and translator, he was a jazz journalist), and the collaboration with Baker was his initiative.
As a jazz & poetry performer, Jan Erik Vold has been constantly active for more than forty years, since his first album Briskeby Blues was produced. With Jan Garbarek he made three albums 1969–1977, and with Egil Kapstad eight albums 1986–2008.
The final product was the result of Baker, Vold, guitarist Philip Catherine, and Norwegian session musicians. Despite their varied backgrounds and the poems’ performance being entirely in Vold’s native Nowegian, the process was smooth and the album has become “the holy grail of Chet Baker albums” over the years– even though its original title referred to the search for a blue goat.
The title of the album was BLÅMANN! BLÅMANN!, which refers to a beloved Norwegian folk tune about a young boy’s search for his blue-shagged goat (blåmann=blue body), lost in the hills of Telemark. In Norway, this has been a best-selling album for more that twenty years. Chet Baker was very happy about the recording sessions in Paris. He wrote to producer Jon Larsen: “Had a great a time, thank’s so much”. To the Norwegian poet: “We must do this again soon”. Of the possibility of translating the poems: Of course, that would give you a much larger audience.”
This import album is in like new condition and is among the rarest of Chet Baker titles and his last recording before his death.price rating
